When it gets to the point where it's a choice between paying for my heat, insurance, cable, internet and phone bill versus ONE Rolling Stones ticket, I will choose keeping the lights on and being able to read Fark, thankyouverymuch.

I understand that an artists music is their music to do what they like with but when it comes to the Stones and money I will forever have a fack them attitude after they way they completely boned the Verve over Bittersweet Symphony to the hilt.

Monsters of Rock Tour 1988: Kingdom Come, Metallica, Scorpions, Dokken and Van Hagar for $25, and we thought that was expensive! Ticket prices these days are crazy. You know what else is crazy? Nazis. Those guys go around picking fights. I'll tell ya who could pick fights, Joe Frasier! He would pick a fight and finish it quicker than could crank start my diggity-nine Model A. Speaking of models, that Betty Grable was a peach! Oh, peaches, time for lunch then a - zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...

rudemix:I understand that an artists music is their music to do what they like with but when it comes to the Stones and money I will forever have a fack them attitude after they way they completely boned the Verve over Bittersweet Symphony to the hilt.

TheGreatGazoo:As a side note, who'd a thunk Keith Richards would have lived to be 68?

Keith knows his limits. He's got a great philosophy. He can only get so high so he stops when he gets to that point. People who go further are the ones who get into trouble. Plus he only did pharmaceutical grade cocaine and cut his own heroin so he always knew the purity and the cut. I'm sure the booze he drinks is top, top shelf. I recommend his autobiography "Life."

The StubHub flippers were real bad with U2 two years ago. Dudes were trying to flip nosebleed and field GA tickets for 2 or 3 times face value. I snatched up 3 tickets at 5pm day of show for $50 bucks total. Stood in front of people who paid $200 a ticket.

All major concerts are over priced. I'm not paying 80-90 or 100+ dollars to see anyone.Of course their prices are more justified than the likes of Modonna. At least you're not paying a few hundred each to go watch karaoke.

You want to see scary prices? Paul McCartney is only playing like 4 concerts this fall in weird places like here in St. Louis, Houston, Vancouver and Edmonton. At the Scottrade Center, most of the lower bowl tickets are listed for $400+ right now.

rudemix:I understand that an artists music is their music to do what they like with but when it comes to the Stones and money I will forever have a fack them attitude after they way they completely boned the Verve over Bittersweet Symphony to the hilt.

Except it was the record company that held the rights to the early Stones material that sued them, not the Rolling Stones themselves..

"After "Bittersweet Symphony" became a hit single, the group was sued by former Stones manager Allen Klein (who owns the copyrights to the band's pre-1970 songs because of aggressive business practices). He claimed the Verve broke the agreement when they supposedly used a larger portion than was covered in the license, something the group vehemently disputed.The Verve layered nearly fifty tracks of instrumentation, including novel string arrangements, to create a distinctly new song. In fact, the song's signature swirling orchestral melody was recorded and arranged by the Verve; the sample from the instrumental record is largely buried under other tracks in the chorus.The band eventually settled out of court and handed over 100 percent of their songwriting royalties because it seemed cheaper than fighting for a legal ruling that might not end in their favor. As if things couldn't have gotten worse, they were then sued by another old Rolling Stones manager, Andrew Loog Oldham. Klein went after the Verve for infringing on the songwriting copyright, which he owned, but Oldham possessed the copyright on the sampled sound recording."

I haven't been to a concert since 2006. It isn't for lack of wanting to see a live performance, it is more due to the fact that at my income level I would be in the nosebleed seats. Tickets to see bands have become insanely overpriced.

I will just wait twenty years for any of the bands that I like now to do the county fair circuit. Day at the fair, fair food, music that I like = better value.

No, that's a tie between The Doors and Rush. 'Overrated' suggests they were never as good as their hype would suggest.

The Stones were an awesome band once, when they were young. But Rock n Roll has a 'Sell by' date and the stones passed theirs decades ago. A 70 year old man wearing one of the most expensive wigs in the world should not be singing "Lets spend the night together"

No, that's a tie between The Doors and Rush. 'Overrated' suggests they were never as good as their hype would suggest.

The Stones were an awesome band once, when they were young. But Rock n Roll has a 'Sell by' date and the stones passed theirs decades ago. A 70 year old man wearing one of the most expensive wigs in the world should not be singing "Lets spend the night together"

Anyone who pays to see a senior citizen play rock n' roll has clearly missed the purpose of rock n' roll.

Don't these guys have enough cash that they don't need to embarrass themselves this way?

Too much is too much. I've already seen them (twice), they are well past their prime, and even in the context of "big, splashy rock extravaganzas"... this is a lousy deal. A farking 3-day wristband to one of the mega-festivals costs less!